† Gerry is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Buck Zoo (Frank Buck Zoo), Gainesville, in United States, .
Gerry was born wild .
An elephant caught in the branches of a fallen tree amid surging floodwaters survived by using her Trunk as a snorkel until rescue workers could ford the swift current and free her. However, many other animals who escaped rising waters at the Texas Frank Buck Zoo were still at large after three days of heavy rain. "We don't have a full count of what animats are missing, but none you could consider dangerous. Mostly they're fleet of foot, like deer," said Assistant Police Chief Carl Dunlap. "I saw a moose standing on the interstate highway, but we got him.' Gem;, a 13 year old female elephant, suivived rushing floodwaters by staying put and using her Trunk as a snorkel. "We could see her, but we just couldn't get to he. because of the swift water/' Dunlap said. "She was able to keep her snout above water and breathe after she became entangled in the treetop. When we finally got to her, there was about a foot of her back sticking out of the water and her snout. We could see her eye every once in a while." Zoo Superintendent Vince Reynolds said the elephant's Trunk was scarred and her neck was sore. "She's pretty tolerable and calm to go through what she went through," another zoo official said. Cowboys in this north-central Texas area began rounding up the Zoo's inhabitants af ter the flood waters went down. A bush cow and a Gnu were lassoed and returned to the zoo, then a llama was found walking near an interstate highway and a deer was discovered just south of town. Julie Broyles, 11, watched a beat swim downstream in the swollen creek which is just behind her house. In 1974 a flood caused the zoo to evacuate its animals, but this time the flood caught officials by surprise. At last report the zoo grounds still had a lot of water in it.
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